Eric Schmidt says his isn’t worried about losing talent to Facebook.”We hire more people in a week than go to Facebook in its lifetime,” he told the New York Times.

File this unfortunate, dissembling quote under the what-was-he-supposed-to-say category.

The truth is, Google is very much worried about losing talent to Facebook. Already its lost 142 people. We’ve heard employees with offers from Facebook can get multi-million dollar stock bonuses from Google if they promise not to defect. One engineer got $6 million!

The Times says, “People who have other job offers have been persuaded to stay with seven-figure bonuses.”